Fastening device



Dec. 15, 1925. 1,565,664

' k 3. MAYER FASTENING 'DEVICE Filed July 16. 1923 fiwezz7a"r Ciarencefffgyer? Patented Dec. 15, 1925..

UNITED STATES 1,565,664 PATENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE MAYER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO NATUBES RIVAL 00., OF

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS,

FASTENING DEVICE.

Application filed July 16, 1923. Serial No. 651,745.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARENCE MAYER, a itizen of the United States, and aresident of the city of Chicago, county of (look, 6 State of Illinois,have invented an Improvement in Fastening Devices, of which the tiveembodiment of the invention, shown in the accompanying drawing. In saiddrawing: Fig. 1 is a view of one form of garment to which the inventivefastening devices may be lapplied,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of a portion of a garment or the like showingthe fastening devices,

Fig. 3 is a section along the line 33 of Fig. 2,

Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic view illustrating by contrasting example one ofthe functions of the improved fastening devices.

For the purpose ofillustration I have shown in the drawings one form ofgarment 10 on which the inventive fastening devices may be employed.Such a garment may have one or more seams 11 at the front, sides or backwhich are fastened together by suitable fastening devices when thegarment is worn. One typical form of fastening meansconsists of a seriesof hooks and eyes suitably spaced along the free edges of the portionsof the garment to be fastened together. Such hooks and eyes may beconveniently applied in the form of hook-andeye tapes 12 and 13respectively to. which the hooks and eyes respectively are suitablysecured at proper intervals, and which tapes 5 are sewed along thedesired edges of the garment. In such typical tapes, the hooks, forexample, may be secured by rivets, or the like, 14, at points remotefrom the bend or end 15 of the hook.

These and other fastening devices especially when under tension cause"the free or outer margin of the garment to wrinkle and frequentlyexpose the fasteners, and otherwise impair the ncatness and appearanceof the garment. For example, the typical hook tends to cause thedistortion illustrated diagrammatically in Fig. 4. Because of thetendency of the fabric of the garment to stretch under tension, and alsobecause of the slight twisting moment e. erted on the fabric by the hookunder tension (see Fig. 4), the free edge 16 of the garment wrinkles andis flexed outwardly, frequently exposing the fasteners and otherwiseimpairing the flatness of the seam and the neat appearance of thegarment. Obviously, the same sort of distortion may take place withother types of fastening devices.

To obviate this and other defects, I have employed to cooperate with thehook-tape 12, a second strip of material, in this instance a tape 17which overlies the hooks and cooperates to preserve the flatness of theseam and the garment when the hooks are placed under tension. Thisresult is secured, in this instance, by providing a series of openingsor slots 18 in the tape 17 registering with the ends 15 of the hooks andthrough which the terminal portions or bills of the respective hooks arepassed. Thus the tape serves also substantially to conceal the hooks andimprove the appearance of the garment. The tape 17 is secured in anysuitable way to the tape 12 or the garment 19. In this instance, bothtapes 12 and 17 are secured together and to the garment, simultaneously,by a longitudinal line of stitching 20 located preferably beyond theends 15 of the hooks. Also, preferably, 95 another line of stitching 21is employed along the opposite edges of the tapes, securing them to thegarment. Considerable economy may be effected by arranging the tapes tobe secured to the garment along one 100 edge simultaneously by the lineof stitching 21 and by securing the tape 17 (and if desired the tape 12)simultaneously with the stitching 20 which forms the finishing seamalong the edge of the fabric of the 105 garment. These lines ofstitching 20 and 21 are sufficiently remote from the books so that thelatter do not interrupt or interfere with the stitching o oration.

Any suitable method or forming the no slots 18 in the strip 17 andapplying the latter over the hooks may be employed. Preferably, theseslots are narrow cuts of a length only suflicient to permit the tapetobe passed over the hooks. The improved hook-tape 12 with itscooperating tape 17 may be supplied in assembled condition (that is withthe openings in the tape 17 passed over the respective hooks) as anarticle of manufacture, by the manufacturer who applies the hooks to thetape.

The overlying tape 17 engages the hooks at the bends 15, and, by reasonof its attachment (for example, by the stitching 20) to the garment 19near the ends 15 of the hooks, the tape tends to hold the garment incontact with the hooks, even though stretched by the hook tension, andto prevent the displacement illustrated diagram; matically in Fig. 4:.Any tendency for the free edge 22 of the garment to draw away from thenormal planeof the garment is resisted by the tape 17.

Any suitable form of eye may be employed in connection with the improvedhook tape. 1 have illustrated a conventional form of eye 23 secured atsuitable intervals along the tape 13 by means of which the former issecured to the garment 19 by suitably located stitching 24 and 25. otherform of eye or its equivalent may be employed.

For efiecting similar advantages in connection with other types offastening means, the manner of application of the overlying strip may bechanged to suit the particular type of fastening means employed. Whenthe fastening means are secured to the garment at points remote fromtheir connection with the cooperating fastenin means, such an overlyingstrip may be a vantageously Obviously any employed to hold the garmentin contact with the fastening devices close to their points ofconnection with the cooperating fastening devices. By arranging theoverlying strips so that portions thereof fall beyond the ends of thefastening devices, the ease with which such strip may be secured to thegarment is considerably increased.

Obviously the invention is not limited to any particular constructionand the details of the illustrative devices may be variously modified.Furthermore, it is not indispensable that all the features of the inven-'tion be used conjointly, since they may be .hooks projecting throughsaid openings,

both of said stri s constructed and arranged to be sewed to a garment byparallel rows of stitching along the op )osite edges on opposite sidesof the row of ooks with the fabric concealing the rear ends'of therivets; said strip of tape, overlying the hook strip, presentingportions cooperating with the shanks of the hooks between the returnbends and the rivets.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

CLARENCE MAYER.

